cup-shaped
Example Sentences
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The oaks have waxy, cup-shaped leaves — not only do they rarely go up in flame, but they can catch embers out of the sky and extinguish them, Yelchin said.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2024
Sometimes described as appearing like a stack of deflated balloons or some dropped lasagna, the organelle called the Golgi body is composed of a series of cup-shaped membrane-covered sacs.
From Science Daily • Jan. 17, 2024
The three areas of each hip bone, the ilium, pubis, and ischium, converge centrally to form a deep, cup-shaped cavity called the acetabulum.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
At Jewel by Lisa , the cup-shaped boats surfing the undulating silk fabric had a message: the life of the ancient Hausa-Fulani people.
From New York Times • Nov. 14, 2012
The beach, miraculously, was empty, a small, cup-shaped bay where no ship could have anchored—no docks, no port.
From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper
